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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






2. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






3. What is normal albumin levels?






4. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






5. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






6. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






7. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






8. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






9. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






10. When does BMR increase?






11. What is the function of vitamin C?






12. What is RDA of protein?






13. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






14. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






15. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






16. What function is vitamin A?






17. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






18. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






19. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






20. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






21. What is normal BMI?






22. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






23. What is the function of vitamin E?






24. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






25. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






26. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






27. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






28. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






29. What are healthy sources of fats?






30. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






31. How many calories/gram is protein?






32. Name six sources of grains






33. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






34. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






35. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






36. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






37. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






38. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






39. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






40. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






41. Where can you get more vitamin D?






42. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






43. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






44. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






45. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






46. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






47. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






48. What does DASH stand for?






49. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






50. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?